Faced with pain, you will discover the power of endurance. If you are insulted, you will discover patience. In time, you will grow to be confident th… - Epictetus

In time, you will grow to be confident that there is not a single impression that you will not have the moral means to tolerate.

Whoever then has knowledge of good things, would know how to love them; but how could one who cannot distinguish good things from evil and things indifferent from both have power to love?

So why take on the burden of matters which you cannot answer for? You are only making unnecessary problems for yourself.

We can familiarize ourselves with the will of nature by calling to mind our common experiences. When a friend breaks a glass, we are quick to say, ‘Oh, bad luck.’ It’s only reasonable, then, that when a glass of your own breaks, you accept it in the same patient spirit. Moving on to graver things: when somebody’s wife or child dies, to a man we all routinely say, ‘Well, that’s part of life.’ But if one of our own family is involved, then right away it’s ‘Poor, poor me!’ We would do better to remember how we react when a similar loss afflicts others.